Peck On The Neck

A certain Claude Maréchal apparently spent three years working on this

splendid mosaic which greatly livens up... well, do you know where?!

 

i think it's called the 'Chantecler', which sounds like a made up word

to me - hang on, i'll check...

 

OK, i'm back, and having discovered tangentially that 'Chantecler' is,

variously, the name of a campsite, a garden, a dramatic poem and a

blog, i finally discover that it is also, and quite probably

originally, a type of chicken, normally white.

 

Now, i do feel rather justified in researching this topic in depth, if

that's what a quick Google search can be called, as judging by M.

Maréchal's work you might be forgiven for thinking that a 'chantecler'

was, in fact, a peacock. In any case, i'm sure there's a perfectly

rational explication behind all this, it's a lovely name (translating

as something like 'sweet songbird' -ish) and it looks like that chap's

going to get a rather sharp peck on the back of the neck if he doesn't

watch out!

 

(A Paris iPhone street photograph by Sab Will for the 'Paris and I'

photo blog)

Done